"Centre Not Willing To Implement Constitution": Supreme Court On Quota For Women In Nagaland
NDTV
"You will take extreme stand against state governments which may not be amenable to you. Your own state government is violating the Constitutional scheme and you don't want to do anything," the court said, in remarks directed at the Centre.
The central government is not willing to implement the Constitution, the Supreme Court remarked today as it slammed both the Centre and the Nagaland government over non-implementation of the constitutional scheme of one-third reservation for women in civic body elections in the northeastern state.
Observing that Nagaland is a state where women actively participate in every aspect of life, a bench of Justices S K Kaul and Sudhanshu Dhulia said the Centre cannot preclude reservation from being extended to women in civic bodies by saying it doesn't apply to tribal areas.
"Why is it not being implemented? What are you doing? Politically also you are on the same page. It is your government. You cannot get away by saying that there is some other in the State," the court said.
